2002 Parley Baer, actor, dies at 88 2002 Arne Mellnas, composer, studied, taught orchestration at Royal College of Music in Stockholm, musical language filled with diverse moods 2001 Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman, started a major cosmetics company, dies at 83 2001 Norman Granz, American Musician 2000 Cyril Clarke, British Scientist 1998 Henry Hampton, documentary maker, Eyes on the Prize, dies at 48 1997 Joanna Moore, actress (Bronx, Hindenburg), dies at 63 1997 Michael Hutchence, rocker (INXS), commits suicide at 37 1997 Tom Blackburn, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, dies at 71 1997 Joanna Moore, actress, dies at 63 1996 Maria Casares, actress (Orpheus, Rebel Nun), dies at 73 1996 Mark Lenard, actor (Sarek-Star Trek), dies of cancer at 68 1996 Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer, dies at 60 1996 Ray Blanton, American Politician 1995 Ambrose Sam, creole accordionist, dies at 76 1995 Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher, dies at 90 1995 Francis Joan Frances Will, actress, dies at 75 1995 Norman Potter, cabinetmaker designer/writer, dies at 72 1994 Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies 1994 John Michael Grimes, set Designer, dies at 70 1994 L V Johnson Singer, dies 1994 Norma Donaldson, U.S. singer and actress (Staying Alive), dies at 68 1993 Bill Bixby, actor (My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59 1992 Gene O'Donnell, actor (Ape, Miracle Kid), dies of lung cancer at 81 1992 Sterling Holloway, U.S. actor (Golddiggers of 1933, Batman), dies at 87 1991 Jac de Jong, Dutch MP/composer/businessman (Nedac-Sorbo), dies 1989 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon 1988 Erich Fried, writer, dies at 67 1988 Janet Ertel, crooner, dies 1988 Luis Barragan, born in Mexico City, Mexico, architect, modernist, minimalist, important 20th century architect, significant landscape designer, self-taught, influenced by writings of Ferdinand Bac, dies 1987 Ted Taylor, rock vocalist, dies 1986 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73 1986 Robert Sutton Whitney, composer, dies at 82 1986 Scatman Crothers, actor (Shining, Zapped), dies at 76 1983 Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58 1982 Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80 1982 Enny, Engelina, de Leeuwe, actress (Anatevka), dies at 84 1982 Max Deutsch, composer, dies at 90 1981 Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante), dies at 74 1980 Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77 1980 Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87 1980 Malando, Arie Maasland, composer/orchestral leader (Ole Guapa), dies at 72 1980 John William McCormack, American Politician 1979 Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63 1977 Reg Perks, England cricket pace bowler (1938-39), dies 1976 Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box), dies at 59 1971 Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65 1969 Acario Cotapos, composer, dies at 80 1967 Edvin Kallstenius, composer, dies at 86 1966 Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles, dies 1963 Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69 1963 Bikram Singh, Indies Lieutenant-General (Kashmir), dies 1963 C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Hamilton, author (Silver Chair), dies at 64 1963 Daulet Singh, Indies Lieutenant-General, dies 1963 John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46 1963 NKD Nanavati, Indies general-major (WW II), dies 1963 William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87 1963 Aldous Huxley, English Novelist 1963 C. S. Lewis, English Author 1963 John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963, dies at age 46 1956 Vincent (Moro-)Giafferi, French criminal (Caillaux/Landru), dies 1955 Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer, dies at 91 1955 Shemp Howard, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 60 1954 Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian United Nations ambassador, dies at 70 1954 Moroni Olsen, actor (Possessed), dies at 65 1944 Arthur Stanley Eddington, dies 1943 Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY 1943 Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer, dies at 57 1940 Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67 1936 Louis F. H. Apol, painter and etcher, dies at 86 1924 Herman Heijermans, Jr., author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies 1916 Jack London, author, dies at 40 1906 Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter, dies 1904 Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies 1902 Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide 1902 Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75 1900 Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58 1900 Arthur Sullivan, British Composer 1896 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor (Ferris wheel), dies 1896 Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer, dies at 65 1890 Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress, dies at 77 1871 Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned 1859 Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist and composer (Faust), dies at 75 1852 August Alexander Klengel, composer, dies at 69 1826 Pavel Lambert Masek, composer, dies at 65 1825 Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies 1813 Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer, dies at 63 1803 Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar/patriot, dies at 57 1799 Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed 1782 John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies 1782 John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies 1781 Frederic Phelypeaux, French earl of Maurepas, dies 1781 John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57 1776 Johann Caspar Simon, composer, dies at 75 1773 Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48 1751 Anton Englert, composer, dies at 77 1718 Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast 1716 Gosbert Cuper, classical/regent, dies at 72 1694 John Tillotson, British Theologian 1617 Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17), dies 1594 Martin Frobisher, English Vice-Admiral/explorer, dies 1247 Robin Hood, dies (from "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood") 950 Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies 365 Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies
